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The McFarlane Prize for Australian web design — nominations now open
Nominations for the McFarlane Prize for excellence in Australian web design have just opened. So, if you’re responsible for a web site launched or significantly updated since September 20 2009 which you think deserves recognition for its adherence to web … Read more »
Introducing Amped, the hackday, reloaded coming to Atlanta and Sydney
When you hear about the latest web technologies and techniques do you ever think “damn, I wish I could play with these right now”?
Enter Amped — the Hackday, reloaded.

We’ve taken the traditional hack day, pulled it apart, thought long and hard about what’s great, what’s … Read more »
Learn CSS3 with John Allsopp
Hot on the heels of my recent HTML5 course with SitePoint, is our new CSS3 Live course, starting today, August 16. It features screencasts, exercises, articles, and live streamed FAQs, and runs for 3 weeks.
We cover selectors, properties, media queries, and more in real depth — so if … Read more »
Sitepoint are looking for a web app developer
Want to work with some of the best developers in Australia? Looking to develop world-class websites using the latest web technologies? Keen to be part of an organisation that is a great supporter of the Aussie web industry?
SitePoint are in need of a talented PHP developer — … Read more »
Tech23 — for Australian Technology Innovators
Tech23, in its second year now, is a great event in Sydney focussing on commercial technology innovation. Featuring a combination of insights from leaders in the tech industry, and a shootout for some serious prizes by 23 early stage technology companies, and all wrapping up with a great awards … Read more »
HTML5 Live, a two week online course from John
A quick note to all that with SitePoint, a fantastic community for web designers and developers, and publisher of many excellent design and development books, I’ll be running a two week course, online starting next Monday on HTML5. And best of all, it’s only $US9.95 (yep, less than a … Read more »
More Web Directions @media podcasts and slides come online
Thanks to a lot of hard work from Guy Leech, a whole bunch of the podcasts and slides from Web Directions @media are now online. It’s always great to give back by making these available, and we’d like to particularly thank our speakers for their generosity.
Help us make it all … Read more »
Three must-see presentations which came out of Web Directions @media
After any conference we always do our best to share the love by creating a podcast and resource page for each presentation from the event. Apologies that it has taken a bit of time to get these out there this time — we’ve had the small matter of … Read more »
Web Directions South 2010
We’re really excited to take the wraps off Web Directions South for 2010. This has been a big year for Web Directions, with our first ever @media just wrapping up in London, and the recently announced Web Directions US in Atlanta.
But our home will always be Sydney, … Read more »
SVG Contest closes Friday
Just a quick update on our “No Bit, Sherlock” competition, where you can win some great prizes like XBoxes, Mindstorms and a SONY Vaio just for building an SVG button, or progress control.
There’s plenty of great examples you can learn from (remember, “view source” is not a sin, it’s … Read more »




